A CT S O F CONGRESS. CHAPTER I. ' An Act fupplementary to the Act, intitled, “ An Act making further Provifion for the Payment of the Debts of the United States." W HEREAS no exprefs provifion has Recital been made for extending the act, intitled, "An act to provide more effectually for the collection of the duties impofed by law on goods, wares and merchandize imported into the United States, and on the tonnage of fhips or veffels," to the collection of the duties impofed by the faid "Act making further provifion for the payment of the debts of the United States," doubts concerning the fame may arise: Therefore, Be it enacted by Provisions the Senate and House of Reprefentatives of the of the act United States of America in Congress affembled, tion of duThat the act, intitled, "An act to provide ties, exmore effectually for the collection of the du- tended to ties imposed by law on goods, wares and mer- king furchandize imported into the United States, and ther provi on the tonnage of fhips or veffels," doth and payment of fhall extend to, and be in force for the col- the United lection of the duties specified and laid in and States. for collec thea ma the debts of by the act, intitled, " An act making further FREDERICK AUGUSTUS MUHLENBERG, APPROVED, December twenty-feventh, 1790: Prefident of the United States. Recital. In cafes of obftru&ion CHAPTER II. An Act to provide for the Unlading of Ships or W HEREAS it fometimes happens, that fhips or veffels are obftructed by ice in their paffage to the ports of their destination, and it is neceffary that provision should be made for unlading fuch fhips or veffels : Section 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and by ice, col House of Representatives of the United States of lector may America in Congrefs affembled, That in all cafes receive en- where a fhip or veffel fhall be prevented by ice other place from getting to the port at which her cargo within his is intended to be delivered, it fhall be lawful for try at any diftrict. the collector of the district, in which fuch fhip or vessel may be so obstructed, to receive the report and entry of any fuch fhip or vessel, and with the confent of the naval-officer (where there is one) to grant a permit or permits for unlading or landing the goods, wares or merchandize imported in fuch fhip or veffel at any place within his district, which fhall appear to him to be moft convenient and proper. lations in Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That the Under the report and entry of fuch fhip or veffel, and of ufual reguher cargo, or any part thereof, and all perfons other cafes. concerned therein, fhall be under and subject to the fame rules, regulations, reftrictions, penalties and provisions, as if the said ship or veffel had arrived at the port of her destination, and had there proceeded to the delivery of her cargo. FREDERICK AUGUSTUS MUHLENBERG, GEORGE WASHINGTON, CHAPTER III. An Act to continue an Act, intituled, " An Act declaring the Affent of Congress to certain Acts of the States of Maryland, Georgia, and RhodeIland and Providence Plantations," so far as the fame respects the States of Georgia, and Rhode-Iland and Providence Plantations. (EXPIRED.) Recital. Confent of of Virginia daries, fhall CHAPTER IV. An Act declaring the Confent of Congress, that a new State be formed within the Jurifdiction of the Commonwealth of Virginia, and admitted into this Union, by the Name of the State of Kentucky. WHE HEREAS the Legislature of the Commonwealth of Virginia, by an act entitled, "An act concerning the erection of the district of Kentucky into an independent ftate," paffed the eighteenth day of December, one thousand feven hundred and eighty-nine, have confented, that the diftrict of Kentucky, within the jurifdiction of the faid Commonwealth, and according to its actual boundaries at the time of paffing the act aforefaid, fhould be formed into a new state: And whereas convention of delegates, chofen by the people of the faid diftrict of Kentucky, have petitioned Congrefs to confent, that, on the first day of June, one thousand seven hundred and ninetytwo, the faid district fhould be formed into a new state, and received into the Union, by the name of "the State of Kentucky:" Section 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and Congress House of Reprefentatives of the United States of that a part America in Congress affembled, and it is hereby within cer- enacted and declared, That the Congrefs doth tain boun- confent, that the faid district of Kentucky, become a within the jurifdiction of the Commonwealth new itate. of Virginia, and according to its actual boundaries, on the eighteenth day of December, one thousand seven hundred and eighty-nine, fhall, upon the first day of June, one thoufand feven hundred and ninety-two, be formed in |